More than 30 years ago, Walker Raines lost the woman he loves. Now he has clandestinely orchestrated what he hopes will appear to be an accidental meeting in very romantic circumstances: aboard the beautiful riverboat The Delta Queen on a leisurely four-day cruise between New Orleans and Natchez. He has chosen the setting carefully. This historic steamboat has been a dynamic symbol for them all their lives. Now it will witness their reunion -- and the secrets that kept them apart.

This unique anthology collects personal stories and leadership lessons from six highly-ranked officers across all branches of service.In Breaching the Summit, six senior enlisted advisors to the joint chiefs of staff share their stories, experiences, and lessons learned from a lifetime of military service. In their own words, each tells how they got their start, how mentors encouraged them along the way, and how they eventually became the highest-ranking e...

Have you ever dreamed of owning an in house daycare? Have you ever dreamed of impacting your community in a positive way? Then this book is for you with insight that will save you years of struggle and heartache. In this book I will lead you down the path of success in the daycare business. I will share with you my story of how my wife and I started the business with very little money and turned it into a booming enterprise. Where we lacked in money we more than made up with in faith in Go...

Communication theory provides a compelling way to understand how people of faith can and should work together in today’s tumultuous world. In A Communication Perspective on Interfaith Dialogue, fifteen authors present their experiences and analyses of interfaith dialogue, and contextualize interfaith work within the frame of rhetorical and communication studies. While the focus is on the Abrahamic faiths, these essays also include discussion of Hinduism and interracial faith efforts. Each ...

Wohlinger Grusel für die AdventszeitIm viktorianischen England war das Weihnachtsfest ohne Schauergeschichte nicht komplett: Man erzählte sie sich am Kaminfeuer im Musikzimmer oder Salon. So verbreitet war dieser Brauch, dass namhafte Autoren eigens Storys dafür verfassten. Im zweiten Band der schaurigen Weihnachtsgeschichten erzählen Autoren wie H.P. Lovecraft, Charles Dickens zusammen mit weniger bekannten Meistern des Horrors von verfluchten Londoner Stadthäuser...

The choices confronting Army Air Corps pilot Matt Tower are equally harrowing – facing a swarm of Nazi fighters over World War II Europe or falling for the charms of an English maiden, or both. Author Charles Bowen cleverly weaves an intriguing story of war and romance in Paladin. The Mighty 8th Air Force was well-engaged in the fight for Europe when Tower joined the fray. The young Georgian was as much focused on bolstering his reputation as an aggressive warrior as he was in embracing En...

African Americans and Latinos earn lower grades and drop out of college more often than whites or Asians. Yet thirty years after deliberate minority recruitment efforts began, we still don't know why. In The Shape of the River, William Bowen and Derek Bok documented the benefits of affirmative action for minority students, their communities, and the nation at large. But they also found that too many failed to achieve academic success. In The Source of the River, Douglas M...

Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book AwardThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Mc...

Building on their important findings in The Source of the River, the authors now probe even more deeply into minority underachievement at the college level. Taming the River examines the academic and social dynamics of different ethnic groups during the first two years of college. Focusing on racial differences in academic performance, the book identifies the causes of students' divergent grades and levels of personal satisfaction with their institutions.Using sur...

Contain The Great Quest by Charles Boardman Hawes (1921) The Golden Fleece - And The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum (1922) The Old Tobacco Shop, A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by William Bowen (1921) The Story of Mankind by Hendrik van Loon (1921) The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs (1922) The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (1922) The Great Quest by Charles Boardman Hawes (1921) A roman...

The Self-Help Classics Collection: Guide to Personal Freedom is an essential compendium of over 40 timeless works that have inspired millions to unlock their potential, overcome limitations, and achieve personal freedom. This edition includes landmark titles such as The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, Think and Grow Rich, The Power of Faith, Freedom For All, The Master Key System, and As A Man Thinketh, among many others. Each book in this collection offers profound insights into the powe...

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be publishe...